The South Beach Hotel and area railings

The South Beach Hotel, originally a pair of houses, features painted stucco with slate roofs behind a parapet and rendered stacks. It has a basement, four storeys, and an attic, with each house forming a mirrored pair. Each side has a full-height canted bay on the outside and a single window range on the inner bay. The architectural detail matches three houses across Victoria Street to the right. The windows are square-headed sashes in moulded surrounds, mostly with four panes, although the narrower side lights of the canted bays have two panes. Many windows have been replaced with plastic since 1977.

There is a moulded cornice over the ground floor and a moulded string course between the second and third floors. The parapet features sunk panels with inset moulding and rebated angles. There are four 20th-century dormers, and the basement sash windows have also been replaced with plastic. Since 1977, the original pair of doors under a single entablature has been replaced by a broad segmental-arched opening within a late 20th-century flat-roofed stuccoed porch. The west end wall is slate-hung and windowless, with a single-storey range alongside that has 20th-century windows in the southwest corner. The rear of the building is L-shaped and has mostly 20th-century windows.

The Victoria Street side, made of unpainted stucco, features a one-window range to the gable end on the right and a two-window wing to the right with a parapet. The upper two floors have four-pane sashes, while the first floor includes two canted oriels and one four-pane sash. The ground floor has two tripartite sashes and a two-panel door with an overlight in a pilastered surround. The basement windows are from the 20th century. The area railings are decorated with fleur-de-lys motifs.

The interior has been altered for hotel use, with the two hallways now linked. There are two staircases; the left staircase features a typical fat bulbous newel found elsewhere on The Esplanade, while the right staircase has had the bottom of its lowest flight altered. The ground floor rooms have plain moulded cornices.